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	\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.		\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.

	File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg\|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess\|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

	File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg\|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.		File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg\|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
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	\|\|2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.		\|\|2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

	Violet_Spiral_2.jpg\|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)\|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)\|Violet Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color [[Violet (nonfiction)\|violet]].

	\|\|2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.		\|\|2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.

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	\|\|2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.		\|\|2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.

			\|\|2020: Chang'e 5 launch: (Chinese: 嫦娥五号; pinyin: Cháng'é wǔhào[note 1]) is a robotic mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. Like its predecessors, the spacecraft was named after the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e. It was launched on 23 November 2020 at 20:30 UTC from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island and landed on the Moon on 1 December 2020, followed by returning to Earth with lunar samples on 16 December 2020, at 17:59 UTC.

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	\|\|1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star. Pic.		\|\|1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star. Pic.

			File:Charles Renard.jpg\|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)\|1847: Engineer [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)\|Charles Renard]] born. Renard will pioneer the design and construction of airships. He will also propose a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series.

	\|\|1864: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf born ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.		\|\|1864: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf born ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.

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	\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.		\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

	File:Prospero_Alpini.png\|link=Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|1553: Physician and botanist [[Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|Prospero Alpini]] born. He ~~traveled~~ around Egypt ~~and served~~ as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua~~. He wrote~~ several botanical treatises ~~which covered~~ exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.		File:Prospero_Alpini.png\|link=Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|1553: Physician and botanist [[Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|Prospero Alpini]] born. He will travel around Egypt, serve as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua, and write several botanical treatises covering exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.

	File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.		File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

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	\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.		\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

	\|\|1553: Prospero Alpini born ~~... physician and botanist~~. He ~~travelled~~ around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value~~. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Pic~~.		File:Prospero_Alpini.png\|link=Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|1553: Physician and botanist [[Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|Prospero Alpini]] born. He traveled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.

	File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.		File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

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	\|\|1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic.		\|\|1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic.

	\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and ~~popularisation~~ of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.		\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.

	File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg\|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess\|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].		File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg\|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess\|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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	\|\|1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.		\|\|1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.

	\|\|1882: ~~born:~~ Arnold Dresden ~~was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century,~~ known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.		\|\|1882: Mathematician Arnold Dresden born ... known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.

	\|\|1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.		\|\|1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.

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	\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.		\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

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	\|\|1912: Charles Bourseul dies ... pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. Pic.		\|\|1912: Charles Bourseul dies ... pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. Pic.

	\|\|1915: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot.		\|\|1915: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anne+burns

	File:Edwin Hubble.jpg\|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|Edwin Hubble]]'s discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.		File:Edwin Hubble.jpg\|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|Edwin Hubble]]'s discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
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	\|\|1925: Edward F. Moore born ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+F.+Moore+mathematician		\|\|1925: Edward F. Moore born ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+F.+Moore+mathematician

	\|\|1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut.		\|\|1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut, will die aboard Sozuz 11. Pic.

	\|\|1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. Pic.		\|\|1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. Pic.
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	\|\|1946: Stephen E. Straus born ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic.		\|\|1946: Stephen E. Straus born ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic.

	~~\|\|1953: Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.~~

	\|\|1969: Saul Winstein dies ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+winstein		\|\|1969: Saul Winstein dies ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+winstein
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	\|link=\|2003: Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev dies ... rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR. Pic.		\|link=\|2003: Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev dies ... rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR. Pic.

	\|\|2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector.		\|\|2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector. Pic.

	\|\|2015: Jerzy Browkin dies ... mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic.		\|\|2015: Jerzy Browkin dies ... mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic.

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	\|\|1553: Prospero Alpini born ... physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Pic.		\|\|1553: Prospero Alpini born ... physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Pic.

	~~\|\|1604: Francesco Barozzi dies ... mathematician, astronomer and humanist. Pic.~~

	\|\|1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier born ... astronomer and author.		\|\|1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier born ... astronomer and author.

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	File:Edwin Hubble.jpg\|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|Edwin Hubble]]'s discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.		File:Edwin Hubble.jpg\|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)\|Edwin Hubble]]'s discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

	\|\|1925: Edward ~~Forrest~~ Moore born ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+F.+Moore+mathematician		\|\|1925: Edward F. Moore born ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+F.+Moore+mathematician

	\|\|1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut.		\|\|1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut.

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	\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.		\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.

	File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg\|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess\|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

	File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg\|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.		File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg\|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
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	\|\|2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.		\|\|2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

	Violet_Spiral_2.jpg\|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)\|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)\|Violet Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color [[Violet (nonfiction)\|violet]].

	\|\|2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.		\|\|2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.

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	\|\|1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star. Pic.		\|\|1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star. Pic.

			File:Charles Renard.jpg\|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)\|1847: Engineer [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)\|Charles Renard]] born. Renard will pioneer the design and construction of airships. He will also propose a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series.

	\|\|1864: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf born ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.		\|\|1864: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf born ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.

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	\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.		\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

	File:Prospero_Alpini.png\|link=Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|1553: Physician and botanist [[Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|Prospero Alpini]] born. He ~~traveled~~ around Egypt ~~and served~~ as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua~~. He wrote~~ several botanical treatises ~~which covered~~ exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.		File:Prospero_Alpini.png\|link=Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|1553: Physician and botanist [[Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|Prospero Alpini]] born. He will travel around Egypt, serve as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua, and write several botanical treatises covering exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.

	File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.		File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

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	\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.		\|\|534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

	\|\|1553: Prospero Alpini born ~~... physician and botanist~~. He ~~travelled~~ around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value~~. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Pic~~.		File:Prospero_Alpini.png\|link=Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|1553: Physician and botanist [[Prospero Albini (nonfiction)\|Prospero Alpini]] born. He traveled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.

	File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.		File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

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	\|\|1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic.		\|\|1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic.

	\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and ~~popularisation~~ of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.		\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.

	File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg\|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess\|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].		File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg\|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess\|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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	\|\|1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.		\|\|1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.

	\|\|1882: ~~born:~~ Arnold Dresden ~~was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century,~~ known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.		\|\|1882: Mathematician Arnold Dresden born ... known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.

	\|\|1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.		\|\|1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.

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	\|\|1553: Prospero Alpini born ... physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Pic.		\|\|1553: Prospero Alpini born ... physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Pic.

	~~\|\|1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier born ... astronomer and author.~~

	File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.		File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg\|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)\|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

	\|\|1820 Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.		\|\|1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic.

	\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.		\|\|1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.
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	File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg\|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.		File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg\|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)\|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

	\|\|1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star		\|\|1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star. Pic.

	\|\|1864: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf born ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.		\|\|1864: Maritime engineer Maxime Laubeuf born ... He was a pioneer in the design and building of submarines, and was responsible for a number of the innovations that led to modern submarine design. His work had a profound influence on the design of submersibles in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Pic.
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	\|\|1864: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve dies ... astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. Pic.		\|\|1864: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve dies ... astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. Pic.

	\|\|1865: Edgar Lee Hewett born ... archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement		\|\|1865: Edgar Lee Hewett born ... archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement. Pic.

	\|\|1869: Valdemar Poulsen born ... engineer ... wire recorder.		\|\|1869: Valdemar Poulsen born ... engineer ... wire recorder. Pic.

	\|\|1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.		\|\|1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.
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	\|\|1905: Otto Stolz born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals.		\|\|1905: Otto Stolz born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals.

	\|\|1907: Lars Leksell born ... physician and neurosurgeon ... invented radiosurgery.		\|\|1907: Lars Leksell born ... physician and neurosurgeon ... invented radiosurgery. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=lars+leksell

	\|\|1910: Octave Chanute dies ... civil engineer and aviation pioneer, born in France. He provided many budding enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers, with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine. Pic.		\|\|1910: Octave Chanute dies ... civil engineer and aviation pioneer, born in France. He provided many budding enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers, with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine. Pic.

	\|\|1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen ~~dies~~ ... physician and murderer ... telegraph.		\|\|1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen executed ... physician and murderer ... telegraph. Pic.

	\|\|1912: Marshall Glecker Holloway born ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.		\|\|1912: Marshall Glecker Holloway born ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.